Alec Empire receives "The Man With The Golden Ear" Music Award at Sound Edit Festival 2016.
This is a recording of his DJ mix from the after party - a journey through the history of Polish electronic music

It’s of no surprise that Lux Interior of
The Cramps directed his artistic abilities towards other areas besides
music, mostly in the form of photography. Poison Ivy and Lux met in “art school” in
the early 1970s and fell into a chaotic and beautiful romance that
lasted up until Lux’s death in 2009. His photography almost always
included Ivy – his eternal muse – as the subject of his work, with his
provocative and fetishistic photographs of her used as Cramps album
covers throughout the years.

Perhaps even most interestingly was his interest in 3-D cameras and this insert from Asymptote Magazine from 1992 featuring 'Crosseyed Photos by Lux Interior'...

Friday, 28 October 2016

For the premiere episode of Acid Quarry Paris, Stephen O’Malley (SOMA)
dusts off a stack of ’90s metal 7”s from his record collection, which
have been in hibernation since being shipped to Paris from his previous
home in NYC some years ago. Specially selected
and seasonally appropriate heavy jams await from Magus, Bethlehem,
Infester, Human Remains and more, with in-depth commentary that reminds
of O’Malley’s cult black metal fanzine DescentListenHERE

'Black Wax Attack is a testament to the boom boom crack of my favourite bashy riddims. Its a journey through my treasured 7” vinyl collection as a self-confessed bashment worshipper.
I got magnetised by dancehall’s swagger and daggering, and converted to reggae’s post “Sleng Teng” mechanoid mutations by Steely & Clevie’s truly outstanding “Streetsweeper Riddim”. Prior to that Greensleeves label purchase, I had been a foolishly arrogant dub snob, and former post punk casualty/hip hop nerd/free jazz space cadet, who had stupidly dismissed ragga as a cheesy, plastic, bastard offspring of reggae. But once smitten by Burro Banton’s “Boom Wha Dis” and Capleton’s “Final Assassin”, there was no turning back. I fell heavily for the ghetto punk attitude, and rabid studio experimentation. I became a regular buyer/addict at Stonebridge Park and Harlesden’ s various hole in the wall reggae vinyl stores, and money/time waster at Notting Hill’s, now sadly, deceased “Dub Vendor” reggae record haven. I would run weekly to these stores to check the zillions of vocals dropped on the multitude of riddims in an attempt to locate the freshest shizzle. And it was def thru that dancehall conversion, that I begged to link up with Daddy Freddy via The Rootsman, and released my first filthy bash-collision “Politicians & Paedophiles” (subsequently released by AFX in 2002), and then quickly formed my own Killing Sound imprint, to atomise parties, Razor X Productions. So herein resides 2 hours of my chosen dancehall drugs. A tunnel visioned tribute mix to Jamaican bionics. A relentless selection of frenzied mechanical gyrations, mind-blowing vocal detonations, electronic rhythm deviations and addictive hip juice injections. An attempt to keep faith in the future of a genre which has felt stale since the vinyl market collapse and the pop-lite takeover by the autotune generation. But a genre I still follow avidly, and await the next generation of freakbeat visionaries and motormouth specialists.'

Earlier this year, my friend Thor sent me the results of his latest creative endeavor - a record from a band he was calling Thor and Friends. At the time, I was still knee-deep in my own record-making process, and was exhausted by the sound of my own voice. The record that Thor sent me became a constant presence in my life after that. I became so attached to it that I asked Thor if he and his aforementioned friends might be willing to spend some time with me, reimagining some of the songs on my forthcoming record. And so-lucky me-I got to spend a few days in Austin with these talented, kind, creative people, breathing new life into a group of songs that I had already lived with for years

Where's Tricky?
A promo video directed by Roger Pomphrey in 1991 for the rare Massive Attack track Just A Matter Of Time, the audio of which has only ever been used on this video. The video itself was only ever released as part of a VHS compilation take called 'Dance International'Via

J.G.Ballard's early fiction is full of sonorous surrealism. In this
special edition of Between the Ears we go Between Ballard's Ears. Two
new, specially commissioned, binaural adaptations of his work reveal the
soundscape of one of Britain's greatest imaginations. In Track 12,
adapted by Brian Sibley, two men listen in to the fantastically
amplified results of microsonics but a different, deadlier game is under
way. Anton Lesser and Elliot Levey star. In Venus Smiles, adapted by
Frank Cottrell Boyce, an enigmatic artist's sonic sculpture brings chaos
and transformation to the luxury resort of Vermilion Sands. Christine
Bottomley, Carl Prekopp, Keziah Joseph and David Sterne star in a story
of death and transfiguration.Sitar performed by Sheema Mukherjee. Sonic realization Mark Burman and Donald MacDonaldListen/Download

David Crosby readily admits that he probably shouldn't be alive. Drug
addiction, alcoholism and health issues have taken their toll but have
not knocked David out. He's still making music and going out on tour,
but he had a little time to talk with Marc about The Byrds, CSN, Neil
Young, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, Altamont, Melissa
Etheridge, and much moreThanks Stan